We are the Trolls: Unitarian Universalists in the movie "Frozen"

                Watching Disney’s latest, surprisingly progressive,  blockbuster movie “Frozen” I realized that the Trolls are Unitarian Universalists! Now stay with me for a moment and I’ll explain.

               Kristoff stumbles upon the trolls quite accidently when he is doing something else. So many Unitarian Universalists have done the same. We stumble onto this faith when we are doing something else. And finding our true home we have been adopted into this family as though we always belonged.

And since he belonged from childhood Kristoff knows what he is talking about when he refers to them as love experts shortly after he meets Anna, and when she is injured that is where he takes her. Unitarian Universalists try to raise our children to know they can come to us about anything. And we offer Our Whole Lives programs to teach children what it means to be a human and sexual being on a intellectual, emotional, and physical level. So of course one of our children could consider Unitarian Universalists love experts (and I mean not just a physical and sexual love but love that goes beyond the intimate).

                When Kristoff takes Anna and Olaf to see the trolls they don’t actually believe the trolls exist. How many times have you said you are a Unitarian Universalist only to have someone say: “What’s that?”

                The way to fix problems in people’s lives is with love. And not just intimate love (getting married) but they advocated a community based love.

Lyrics from “Fixer Upper” by Maia Wilson part of the “Frozen” soundtrack.

“Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper,
That's what it's all about!

Father!

Sister!

Brother!

We need each other
To raise us up and round us out.
Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper,”

            And we have a spiritual based recognition that no one is perfect but standing on the side of love is always the best option:

Lyrics from “Fixer Upper” by Maia Wilson part of the “Frozen” soundtrack.

“We're not sayin' you can change him,
'Cause people don't really change.
We're only saying that love's a force
That's powerful and strange.
People make bad choices if they're mad,
Or scared, or stressed.
Throw a little love their way.

Throw a little love their way.

And you'll bring out their best.”

            When Anna is first injured by the ice the troll king says heads are easy to convince. But to change hearts requires an act of true love. Love is where true change happens. How many sermons have you heard that could be boiled down to that very subject?

            And last but not least… the trolls are rocks. They don’t go anywhere against their will.